Spain and 'boat dependence'

For the Spanish Football Federation to reprimand Barça for starting medical treatment at Lamine Yamal is absurd. If Spain has made any impact on the European and world football scene in the last two decades, it has been thanks to the players, both men and women, developed at Barça, capable of playing a technical, brilliant, and winning style of football that put an end to all those years of...developmentalismfootballing so well summarized in the expression "the Spanish fury", invoked with a glass of Soberano in hand, that"It's a man's thing."A club that has contributed a list of players that could start with Puyol, Xavi, and Iniesta, and end with Pedri (whom Real Madrid didn't want) and Lamine, deserves gratitude, not this nonsense. But seeing that the Federation has had presidents like Luis Rubiales, the nonsense is understandable.

It's incomprehensible, ungrateful, and unintelligent that after all these years ofboat dependenceFrom the Spanish national team (there have even been recent squads where no Real Madrid players were called up), months before the next World Cup, the Federation is unable to maintain a fluid dialogue with Barça. The club is the one that pays the players and has every right to manage them as it sees fit.

Of course, the players are thrilled to be selected and dream of the World Cup, and so, by filling the schedule with official matches and playing every three days, lucky is the match that doesn't end with an injury. However, you'll never see the players go beyond rhetorical complaints. The show must go on.